Liz Truss entered Downing Street in September with, she thought, a mandate for radical economic change. But what followed were a series of disastrous mistakes. 🔎 Big Read:
that was intended to raise cash for the NHS and social care. That was an expensive tax cut but one that had been well flagged in advance, and the whole initial package included nothing that she had not publicly spoken about on the campaign trail, insist former allies.
“We weren’t going to wait around 10 weeks for the OBR to do its forecast – that was the first major error,” said one close observer.The death of Queen Elizabeth II , has been blamed for allowing what one former advisor called a “libertarian free-for-all”. Others insist, however, that Truss herself needed no persuading.
The prime minister had become isolated as she made the decisions that were to doom her. She was spending her time on official mourning duties, often with King Charles, and had changed her phone number several times during the previous few months. Although she later changed her mind on Case, warming to him as he managed the complex transition and mourning period with quiet efficiency, the mandarin knew he was, at best, on borrowed time.
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